Yes, and I'm really surprised to see how quickly everyone has turned on Shae. Teets and Asky was my favorite production in Drag Race herstory, and I think, despite the team win and admiration for Sasha, that a majority of the credit goes to Shae's blaxploitation realness.

I think a lot of them also realize that being cast automatically inducts you into a sorority. These queens are all going to be working with each other a lot, for years after the show ends, so it's dumb to burn bridges since this is pretty much the only way to turn drag from a passion into a potentially profitable…

To be fair, a lot of season winners have floundered on the drag mother challenge, and pretty much every season features a favorite in the bottom 2.

My initial expectation was that she had a five o'clock shadow and no lipstick under the veil. I never expected she wouldn't know the lyrics.

I work in restaurants, and they will never say you haven't tipped enough. They will only ask you if there was something wrong with the service.

But isn't that what they're doing? Give them time. If they introduced us to Luke in Little America without any explanation as to how he escaped when we'd previously believed him to be shot dead, then we'd be complaining about that.

Nearly all of the Coco v. Alyssa toxicity is contained in Untucked which, IMO, is non-essential to the enjoyment of the season. Plus, if I had to pick one episode from all seasons to convey this show's greatness (aside from the All Stars 2 premiere) it'd Season 5's Ru Paul Roast. You've got the Reading is Fundamental…

Numbers and symbols work for grocery shopping. I'm sure they work for cooking and baking as well. Or the Marthas get their own preparation and training the same way Handmaids do.

There's been a few times during the Ceremony when I look at the misery on her face and picture Megyn Kelly, Ann Coulter, or Gretchen Carlson in the same position.

I can summarize S5's Untucked. Ep 1-2: Everyone hates Serena Cha Cha, Ep 3-8 Coco vs. Alyssa ad infinitum, Ep 9-12 Rolaskatox (but mostly Roxxxy) gangs up on Jinkx. I mostly found S5's Untucked to be negative emotionally draining. IMO, there are more delightful and iconic moments to S4's Untucked, mostly courtesy of…

"She Mail" was discarded a few seasons ago when it was decried by the trans community as phobic, but otherwise you're absolutely right about VH1's de-gayification of the show.

Gurl, you crazy. Season 5 is the tits. The entire Top 7 comprised All Stars 2.

Meh. They've done plenty of "grab your partner" stuff in past seasons which always leads to someone getting stuck with someone they didn't really choose. Better competitors are able to rise above it.

The Google machine tells me spruik is archaic Australian slang.

Especially since she's done skeletal makeup now for what seems like umpteen episodes in a row.

There are myriad ways to feature systemic racism without making the show racist or all-white casting, especially since they're clearly comfortable making changes to the source material. They could've written a Gilead in which WOC were relegated to Marthas, for example, even the fertile ones. The Waterford's Martha…

Come now. There were generations upon generations of illiterate cooks and bakers prior to the advent of the printing press.

I was raised agnostic Christian and attended the Bar and Bat Mitzvahs of at least a dozen classmates, neighbors, and summer camp friends.

As a person of color, I have to say I find that to be utterly specious reasoning. In our current landscape, it is just as sociopolitically relevant to showcase the racism of Gilead as it is the misogyny, if not moreso. I find it convenient that the creators chose a facile solution that absolved them of acknowledging…

I was hoping they'd shape the fro, not shave it off.